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Premier Ewart Brown and his entourage spent $320,000 of taxpayers' cash on trips in the last fiscal year.
Dr. Brown and his team spent $53,000 on ground transport alone — including $16,000 splashed out solely by Dr. Brown travelling around Washington...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Not enough assistance is being provided to rehabilitate inmates, according to the Parole Board.
Members say more substance abuse and sexual offenders programmes are needed, as well as greater efforts in finding prisoners employment and accommodation....
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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PLP MP Neletha Butterfield has been handed the role of Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, taking Dale Butler's Cabinet position following his unexpected resignation days ago.
Ms Butterfield was sworn in at Government House yesterday by Go...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board has hired a Canadian consultancy firm to advise on the public-private partnership aspect of the planned $315 million redevelopment of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH).
Pending Immigration approval, Stantec Cons...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The Spirit of Bermuda was forced to withdraw from the Bermuda to Charleston leg of the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge.
On Sunday the ship pulled out of the race because it needed to get to Savannah, Georgia in order to make necessary repairs to the shi...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The UK will decide by the end of July whether Bermuda will still be allowed to negotiate with other countries on behalf of Britain, following the recent Uighur controversy.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband set the date for completion of a rev...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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New postal regulations announced Friday should help save post office workers several miles in walking everyday, and return many more letters to their original senders.
The new regulations, announced at the House of Assembly, will return all misaddres...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The Opposition believe US civil rights leader Al Sharpton's visit to the Island to show support for Premier Brown distracted from the real issues surrounding the decision to bring four former Guantánamo detainees to Bermuda.
Rev Sharpton visited the ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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A package containing an unknown powder caused Freisenbruch-Meyer Insurance staff to be quarantined and a portion of Front Street closed for nearly two hours yesterday afternoon.
At 3.15 p.m. the insurance company's Front Street office was hand-delive...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Economic empowerment zones could be in store for St. George's and Sandys following research aimed at determining if they are needed.
The Economic Empowerment Zones Agency (EEZA) announced the launch of surveys in the east and west of the Island.
It w...
DATE: Jun 23, 2009
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